1941 In Literature

Events

New books

• Blood On The Forge - William Attaway
• Call It Courage - Armstrong Sperry
• Curious George - H.A. Rey and Margret Rey
• A Curtain of Green - Eudora Welty
• Death Comes as the End - Agatha Christie
• Herself Surprised - Joyce Cary
• The Keys of the Kingdom - A.J. Cronin
• Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey
• Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain
• The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
• The Shy Plutocrat - E. Phillips Oppenheim
• The Song of Bernadette - Franz Werfel
• Under the Cottonwood - Katheryn Campbell Graham
• Up at the Villa - W. Somerset Maugham
• What Makes Sammy Run? - Budd Schulberg
• The Wind From Nowhere - Oscar Micheaux

Births

• October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer

Deaths

• January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer
• January 13 - James Joyce, writer
• March 28 - Virginia Woolf, author
• August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, author
• November 18 mile Nelligan, poet

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Armstrong Sperry, Call It Courage
• Nobel Prize for literature: not awarded
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert E. Sherwood, There Shall Be No Night
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Leonard Bacon: Sunderland Capture
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: no award given

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